I pass here every day but never had such details about the history of it and how it was catually organized.
Thanks OP!
It’s not just the fact that there are three lines beneath each other but they also cross at one single point that makes it even more interesting.
Now do one of the human tunnels at Chatelet!
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Wow, thanks for posting this.
Besson‘s “Subway” starts playing in my head.
This looks like one of my dreams where i get stuck in the metro and nothing makes sense.
i’m curious as to what that red stuff on that ledge on the top of the picture, on the right side of the middle tunnel
That’s where Eric is hiding
That’s some insane engineering right there.
was the lower portion build first?
No joke, I had to cross through Paris to get home from Spain last year (different train station), and i get on the metro at my arrival. Keep in mind, I’m coming off of a night train, so I’ve barely slept.
So in between my anxiety of standing in the middle a mass of French commuters i can barely communicate with, hoping I got on the right line in the right direction, hoping my final train of the journey doesn’t get delayed and stuff, suddenly my mind goes into fight or flight as, seemingly out of nowhere the metro cart goes over the largest river I’ve ever seen, weaves in with traffic and goes into some random hole in the wall and shortly after stops at a station.
This might seem normal for you Parisians, but being sleep deprived and going “wait, water! Oh, no, traffic! WAIT, NO, WALL!” in the span of 10 seconds that feels like eternity is not something I’ll ever forget.
TL;DR: If you’re using public transport in Paris for the first time, make sure you slept well enough the night before to avoid the sudden yet inevitable heart attacks.
Edit: upon further recollection, it might have been above traffic on a bridge of some kind, but again, sleep deprivation+anxiety=inevitable yet somehow completely avoidable stress heart attack.
And RER Auber next to it is built next to an underground reservoir as are 20% of metro and RER stations in Paris. It explains the water seeping from the walls.
I´ve been to many places in Paris and thought I seen all that is interesting (to me). I was wrong.
I can smell it from here
HALF-LIFE?
3 lines cross in Saint Petersburg (Sennaya/Sadovaya/Spasskaya), but they do not share the same space, because all our tunnels are wrapped into concrete tubes (bad wet soil). This one in Paris is amazing.
And they took care of the architecture too
that’s Wario’s gold mine on mario kart
Syphon Filter anyone else???
Awesome
Engineers: Let’s keep it simple!
Paris: But what if we don’t?
Engineers: ah you convinced me
I’d love to have a complete 3D map of all the Parisian underground, though I guess that would include quite a lot of sensitive data
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What’s on tht legde?
I pass here every day but never had such details about the history of it and how it was catually organized.
Thanks OP!
It’s not just the fact that there are three lines beneath each other but they also cross at one single point that makes it even more interesting.
Now do one of the human tunnels at Chatelet!
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Wow, thanks for posting this.
Besson‘s “Subway” starts playing in my head.
This looks like one of my dreams where i get stuck in the metro and nothing makes sense.
i’m curious as to what that red stuff on that ledge on the top of the picture, on the right side of the middle tunnel
That’s where Eric is hiding
That’s some insane engineering right there.
was the lower portion build first?
No joke, I had to cross through Paris to get home from Spain last year (different train station), and i get on the metro at my arrival. Keep in mind, I’m coming off of a night train, so I’ve barely slept.
So in between my anxiety of standing in the middle a mass of French commuters i can barely communicate with, hoping I got on the right line in the right direction, hoping my final train of the journey doesn’t get delayed and stuff, suddenly my mind goes into fight or flight as, seemingly out of nowhere the metro cart goes over the largest river I’ve ever seen, weaves in with traffic and goes into some random hole in the wall and shortly after stops at a station.
This might seem normal for you Parisians, but being sleep deprived and going “wait, water! Oh, no, traffic! WAIT, NO, WALL!” in the span of 10 seconds that feels like eternity is not something I’ll ever forget.
TL;DR: If you’re using public transport in Paris for the first time, make sure you slept well enough the night before to avoid the sudden yet inevitable heart attacks.
Edit: upon further recollection, it might have been above traffic on a bridge of some kind, but again, sleep deprivation+anxiety=inevitable yet somehow completely avoidable stress heart attack.
And RER Auber next to it is built next to an underground reservoir as are 20% of metro and RER stations in Paris. It explains the water seeping from the walls.
I´ve been to many places in Paris and thought I seen all that is interesting (to me). I was wrong.
I can smell it from here
HALF-LIFE?
3 lines cross in Saint Petersburg (Sennaya/Sadovaya/Spasskaya), but they do not share the same space, because all our tunnels are wrapped into concrete tubes (bad wet soil). This one in Paris is amazing.
And they took care of the architecture too
that’s Wario’s gold mine on mario kart
Syphon Filter anyone else???
Awesome
Engineers: Let’s keep it simple!
Paris: But what if we don’t?
Engineers: ah you convinced me
I’d love to have a complete 3D map of all the Parisian underground, though I guess that would include quite a lot of sensitive data